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Note for Joe Bastardi: Joe, I posted a link to this page on your CFACT article for the benefit of TROLL Elind and invited him to watch and get an education.
https://www.cfact.org/2024/10/04/the-vp-debate-moderators-put-their-lack-of-understanding-of-climate-and-weather-on-display/#disqus_thread
Be sure to address that so many people were affected in no small part to there being so many more people. Population growth by definition must include less than perfect locations.
And did they evacuate, as advised? If not, why not?
Most lack the resources, they can barely buy food and pay bills, let alone take a long road trip and stay away from work and home for an extended time. They also doubted that a hurricane that came ashore in the Gulf would still have enough punch by the time it reached them to wipe out half the state.
The resources to evacuate? What was the poverty level there? There is a long history there of flood events. There was no good reason to doubt the rain projections. Although I do not know what those actually were, so that is a good question.
> And did they evacuate, as advised? If not, why not?
Those are complex questions. In the rural areas there may not be any history to indicate an evacuation was recommended. In the recently now suburban areas there may be no history of the consequences of new bridges and channelized waterways. I also suspect long time residents may have been unaware of the changes to their upstream cachement changes.
The high ones are upper level readings not ground
They, the city of Asheville, willfully allowed building in the known flood plain and on steep hills subject to landslide. All the added bridges and thousands of homes and city buildings, compared to 1916, greatly inhibited the ability of the river to flow, making this event 2′ to 4′ higher then it would have been in 1916.
Over and over they say Helene landed at 140 mph. What gust, 170, 180?? But the published highest gust was 99 mph at Perry. What sustained wind, 70, 80?? I can’t reconcile this and I can’t find any other information or explanation.
The high ones are upper level readings not ground I think I read
Our son in South Texas got this message Oct 2 from a lady we know who lives in North Carolina. She’s the one who wrote that book “After the Flowers Die” and sent us a copy when our daughter’s oldest daughter passed away exactly one year ago. We also have relatives in North Carolina. Please keep them all in prayers.
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Hey, ______. How is your family that lost their daughter/granddaughter?
As for North Carolina, it’s horrible…
I haven’t even gotten to the top of my texts.
It is horrific. The stories I hear. I’m not gonna go there till later, but we’re all gathering together. Get supplies up there.
Literally literally literally, the roads. It looks like an earthquake.
I love the creativity because this ranch brings out their mules and that’s how they’re getting supplies into the worst. My friends were finally contacted and found alive. I never go on Facebook, but I’m using it like crazy.
I was told this evening that my Pond guy’s daughter works in a hospital up there. They have a truck sitting outside with 300 bodies in it.
These are hollers and valleys and hippie enclaves and urban enclaves. They are wiped out. It’s gonna take years.
And so many people are gone. Two days ago one county had 1000 people missing. And that’s just one county.
Sorry To unload.
Firebombing was perfected during WWII and napalm really came into its own during the Vietnam police action. Sea surface temperatures marked affect hurricane formation, strength and movement. Thus it should be fairly easy for humans to control hurricanes by acting forcefully while they are still far from landfall.
Fairly easy?
Unknown consequences if it it accomplishes the goal.
Andy, do you have an engineering report on how this should be done?
I admit I didn’t watch. And I’ve had problems with YouTube.
But I have a bigger problem, in the context of everything being about “Climate Change”, with from tornadoes to hurricanes being measured by the damage done to people rather that the strength of the weather event itself.
The tornado that hit a forest at what became the site of The Battle of Fallen Timbers would have not even noticed in history if not for the battle.
If it hit today, it may have wiped out the present-day city of Maumee Ohio.
Headlines galore!
Climate alarmists changers need to take a deep breath and look at what they are saying — exaggeration, inaccurate, overblown… but it is predictable, by which I mean it is not at all surprising that “uneducated” climate alarmists, not scientists many believing what they are saying but also “on the payroll meaning they stand to gain personally either “reputationally,” or worse monetarily – on the payroll ie., getting funding or notoriety etc. – making unsupported (scientifically) claims on “climate change” being the “cause” of weather related which are not man made caused damages.